Website Question
Im about to pull my hair out trying to find music for my new site, maybe its just me but I hate cheesy elevator music with some no name guy attempting to be lady gaga. Ive seen PLENTY of sites that have actual professional known singers like dido or even Black Eyed Peas and wondering how or where did you guys them?
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Permalink Reply by Nina Greipel on -
I'm guessing these songs are being used illegally. Have you tried Triple Scoop Music? You can buy individual songs for $40.
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Permalink Reply by Shane E. on -
The recording industry is a bunch of aholes who try to deny trends and technology and force common sense to go the opposite direction until they ultimately are ignored to the point that they have to conform. Eventually, the recording industry will have computers that scan the internet for sites playing music and will compare that music to copyrighted works and then probably send out mean emails. They should be creating a system that allows small businesses to license popular music for reasonable prices. They should license their songs like photographers license photographs (basing it on the size of the 'publication' more or less). But they don't. Well, they kind of do... but it is complicated.
Triple Scoop is reasonable, but I never found anything there that really grabbed me (figuratively). If you invest some time, you can probably find something you like. Maybe.
As far as using popular music, you just upload it to your site and play it. There are various web players available for different formats. Technically, playing popular music is going to be a copyright violation. But if you play music in your studio, you could say that is a copyright violation, as well. However, playing a popular song on your site does not make it part of your business, unless you turn it into a jingle or something. When I hear Elvis in the background at Chi-Chi's, I don't assume he works there now. If a visitor to your site likes the song, it is emotionally soothing and enhances their mood. Fact. It would be nice to have a simple option to license a song at a realistic price.
The popular music industry snubbing small businesses by not providing an efficient means to affordable licensing would be the equivalent of the music industry not being able to hire photographers to shoot pics of their artists, so they have to steal images off of magazine websites to hopefully get a decent quality image to fill a CD case. Or they could use Triple Scoop Stock Images. Fortunately for them, photographers offer licensing for every level of industry. And that isn't a great example, because a musicians image is pretty important. The music on your website is just some fluff.
Music on most websites is kind of annoying. However, I believe music is expected when viewing a wedding photographer's site. It is part of creating an experience. And you don't want that experience to be " where the F*** did they get this song? eww."
The current music licensing system is geared toward corporations and big business. Theoretically, you should be licensing music through ASCAP or BMI. Here is an excerpt from BMI's FAQ on how to calculate the cost of licensing:
"We recommend that you test both financial report calculations each time you report in order to determine which method works best for your web site. First calculate what the web site license fee would be at 1.75% of your Total Gross Revenue. Then, calculate the web site Music Area Fee. In order to calculate the Music Area Fee, you must calculate your Music Area Revenue. To calculate your Music Area Revenue, add your Direct Music Area Revenue to the Allocation of Run-Of-Site Revenue. To calculate the Allocation of Run-Of-Site Revenue, multiply your Run-Of-Site Revenue by a fraction the numerator of which is total Music Page Impressions and the denominator of which is total Page Impressions. Your Music Area License Fee will be the greater of (1) Music Area Revenue multiplied by 2.5%; AND (2) Music Page Impressions divided by 1,000 and multiplied by $0.12. After you've made both the Gross Revenue calculation and the Music Area Revenue calculation, compare your license fee under each and file accordingly. "
Right.
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Permalink Reply by Kimberly on -
Shane that all just sounds like bull.. You are right, I dont see why any website can play even a sample of the actual song.. I really wouldn't mind a small 1 minute loop of a song as long as it was current and popular. I think Im going to throw in the towel on this one, though I do plan on asking some of my friends to record their versions of songs (pianist or guitar). If people can can post videos of themselves playing popular songs on YouTube, I dont see any reason why I cant play their version of the songs on my website. Thank you btw guys :)
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Permalink Reply by Jacob Zimmer on -
I'm with Erica. Music on a photography website is like, well, having a video to go along with a song.
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Permalink Reply by Kimberly on
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Yea Ive quit looking for music.. I talked to my admin who is running my own server and he also said it would be best without it.
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Armbrust on -
You have an Admin and a server?!
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